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Definition of Portioners
1. portioner [n] - See also: portioner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portioners
Literary usage of Portioners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant: With an Appendix Containing by Robert Hunter, William Guthrie (1876)
"As heirs-portioners succeed equally to those rights which are divisible, ...
Heirs-portioners therefore must possess as would a single heir, ..."
2. Wills and Succession: Including Wills, and how to Make Them : Succession to by Allan McNeil (1896)
"Any of the heirs-portioners may insist upon the property being equally divided,
... While the property remains undivided, the heirs-portioners are jointly ..."
3. A Treatise on the Conveyance of Land to a Purchaser, and on the Manner of by Robert Bell, William Bell (1830)
"Heirs Portioners.'—The right possessed by an heir portioner is subject to all
the variety in the form of conveyance which takes place in the case of an ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"Our lovite A., eldest daughter of the deceased B., That she and C. and D-, her
sisters, and only other children of the said B., are heirs-portioners, ..."
5. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1844)
"Heirs-Portioners, 3. I cannot adopt the principle of lie argument of the younger
sisters and that of the Lord Or- '' assumes ..."
6. Decisions of the Court of Session: From the Year 1733 to the Year 1754 ...by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Grant Elchies, William Maxwell Morison by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Grant Elchies, William Maxwell Morison (1813)
"(See DICT. No. 75. p. 534. and No. 102. p. 3322. 1750. January 2. CHALMERS against
CHALMERS, Heirs-Portioners of ..."
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